Representatives of Russia and the United Nations Conference on Commerce and Development (UNCTAD) have held a meeting in Moscow on Monday in which they have addressed issues related to maritime security in the Black Sea, an area where danger has been increasing derived from the war in Ukraine.
The meeting has been present at the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergei Vershinin, and the General Secretary of UNCTAD, Rebeca Grynspan, among other representatives of the parties. The appointment has served to carry out “a wide exchange of opinions on world food security issues.”
The Russian representative has taken the opportunity to emphasize the importance of complying with the agreements reached between Russia and the UN for “the normalization of agricultural exports”, a pact that contemplates the distribution “without obstacles” of fertilizers and Russian foods that have been weighed by international sanctions.
“The parameters were discussed to implement Russian humanirarium actions, including the free transfer of arbitrarily blocked mineral fertilizers in the European Union ports to the poorest countries,” the Russian Foreign Ministry detailed in a statement on its website.
The war in Ukraine broke out at the end of February 2022 after the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, gave the order to militarily invade his neighboring country. Since then the fronts have been almost stagnant and without agreements, although the parties now seem to be able to reach peace agreements.
Throughout these more than three years of war, Russia and Ukraine have barely been able to reach agreements to relieve tensions, although precisely one of those pacts had to do with the free navigation in the black sea of vessels loaded with agricultural products of one and another country.
The agreement between the parties-alcanado in July 2022 thanks to the mediation of the United Nations and Turkey-ended up breaking a little less than a year later, although two individual pacts of Russia and Ukraine with the UN are still in force.